Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam on Monday filed a writ petition in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, pleading for the transfer of the probe into the Karur stampede from the State police to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The plea came in the wake of the Saturday incident at Karur, where a massive crowd at a TVK campaign event led to a stampede, resulting in the death of at least 40 people and leaving dozens injured.
The massive crowd at Vijay's rally in Karur on Saturday reportedly turned chaotic, triggering panic. Several attendees fainted and were rushed to nearby hospitals. Sources had said that overcrowding at the venue led to the tragedy.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 24: The School of Law, VELS Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS), a premier law institution in Chennai, marked its decennial year with grandeur at the University campus in Pallavaram, Chennai.
During a hearing on TVK's petition challenging what it describes as "tough and unfufillable" conditions imposed by police when granting permission for public meetings, Justice N. Sathish Kumar, on Thursday, observed that some of the restrictions placed on TVK's rallies may be discriminatory
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed the bail petition of Pon Vasanth, husband of Madurai Mayor Indrani, who is among the accused in the Madurai Corporation property tax scam.
The Madras High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify allegations of large-scale voter list manipulation in the 2024 General Elections.
Ramajeyam was abducted and murdered on March 29, 2012, while out on his morning walk. His body was later found dumped near Kallanai in Trichy. Initially, Trichy city police set up special teams to trace the culprits, but the case was later transferred to the CBCID. Subsequently, Ramajeyam's
Chennai police on Wednesday night detained sanitation workers who had been protesting for 13 consecutive days outside the Greater Chennai Corporation's Ripon Building, following a Madras High Court order to clear the protest site.
Around 800 sanitation workers, opposing the civic body's move to privatise waste management in two zones, were forcibly removed around midnight and taken away by buses within 45 minutes.